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John Varley

(John Herbert Varley)

(1947 - )
aka
Herb Boehm

About John Varley

John Varley was born in Texas in 1947. After spending time as a 'confirmed drifter' he settled in Portland, Oregon and became a full-time writer. He has won the Hugo and Nebula awards a number of times, and has also received the prestigious Prix Apollo. His acclaimed novels include Titan, Wizard, Demon (the Gaea trilogy), Millennium and Steel Beach.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Rolling Thunder

Series

Eight Worlds
1. The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977)
2. The Persistence of Vision (1978)
3. Blue Champagne (1986)
4. Steel Beach (1992)

Gaea
1. Titan (1979)
2. Wizard (1979)
3. Demon (1984)

Red
1. Red Thunder (2003)
2. Red Lightning (2006)

Novels

Millennium (1983)
Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo (1991)
The Golden Globe (1998)
Mammoth (2005)
Rolling Thunder (2008)

Collections

The Barbie Murders: And Other Stories (1980)
aka Picnic on Nearside
The John Varley Reader (2004)

Chapbooks

In the Hall of the Martian Kings (1978)
Press Enter (1997)

Anthologies edited

Superheroes (1995) (with Ricia Mainhardt)

Anthologies containing stories by John Varley

Short stories

	Picnic on Nearside (1974)
	In the Bowl (1975)
	Retrograde Summer (1975)		Nebula (nominee)
	Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance (1976)		Hugo (nominee)
	Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1976)
	The Phantom of Kansas (1976)		Hugo (nominee)
	Air Raid (1977) (writing as Herb Boehm)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	Good-bye, Robinson Crusoe (1977)
	Goodbye, Robinson Crusoe (1977)
	In the Hall of the Martian Kings (1977)		Hugo (nominee)
	Lollipop and the Tar Baby (1977)
	The Barbie Murders (1978)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Persistence of Vision (1978)		Nebula Hugo
	Options (1979)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	Beatnik Bayou (1980)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	Blue Champagne (1981)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Pusher (1981)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo
	The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged) (1984)
	PRESS ENTER [] (1984)		Nebula Hugo
	Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo (1986)
	The Unprocessed Word (1986)
	Truth, Justice and the Politically Correct Socialist Path (1994)
	The Flying Dutchman (1998)

Awards

	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1976) : Retrograde Summer
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1977) : The Phantom of Kansas
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1977) : Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1978) : Air Raid
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1978) : Air Raid
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1978) : In the Hall of the Martian Kings
	Hugo Best Novella winner (1979) : The Persistence of Vision
	Nebula Best Novella winner (1979) : The Persistence of Vision
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1979) : The Barbie Murders
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1980) : Options
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1980) : Options
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1980) : Titan
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1980) : Titan
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1981) : Beatnik Bayou
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1981) : Beatnik Bayou
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1981) : Wizard
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1982) : The Pusher
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1982) : The Pusher
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1982) : Blue Champagne
	Philip K Dick Award Best Novel nominee (1983) : Millennium
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1984) : Millennium
	Hugo Best Novella winner (1985) : PRESS ENTER []
	Nebula Best Novella winner (1985) : PRESS ENTER []
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1993) : Steel Beach
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1999) : The Golden Globe

Links to other websites

varley.net

John Varley recommends

Lunar Descent (1991) (Near-Space) Allen M Steele "The best hard SF writer to come along in the last decade."	Callahan's Legacy (1996) (Callahan) Spider Robinson "Subversive, dangerous, iconoclastic, cantankerous. Puns, palindromes, puzzlers, posers, pranks, and poetry. A three ring circus of ideas - I loved it!"	Callahan's Con (2003) (Callahan) Spider Robinson "Spider Robinson is the Tom Robbins of the 21st century."

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